Sowbane Sow"bane` noun (Botany) The red goosefoot ( Chenopodium rubrum ), -- said to be fatal to swine.

Sowce Sowce noun & v. See Souse . [ Obsolete]

Sowdan Sow"dan noun [ French soudan . See Soldan .] Sultan. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sowdanesse Sow"dan·esse` noun A sultaness. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sowens Sow"ens noun plural [ Scottish; confer Anglo-Saxon seáw juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [ Written also sowans , and sowins .]

Sower Sow"er noun One who, or that which, sows.

Sowins Sow"ins noun plural See Sowens .

Sowl Sowl intransitive verb See Soul , intransitive verb [ Obsolete]

Sowl, Sowle Sowl, Sowle transitive verb [ Confer prov. German zaulen , zauseln , German zausen to tug, drag.] To pull by the ears; to drag about. [ Obsolete] hak.

Sown Sown past participle of Sow .

Sowne Sowne transitive verb & i. To sound. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sowse Sowse noun & v. See Souse . [ Obsolete] ryden.

Sowter Sow"ter noun See Souter . [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Soy Soy noun [ Chinese shōyū .] 1. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

2. (Botany) The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja .

Soyle Soyle transitive verb [ Aphetic form of assoil .] To solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts. [ Obsolete] Tyndate.

Soyle Soyle noun [ Confer Soil to feed.] Prey. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Soyned Soyn"ed adjective [ French soigner to care.] Filled with care; anxious. [ Obsolete] Mir. for Mag.

Sozzle Soz"zle transitive verb [ Freq. from soss , v.] 1. To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water. [ Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

2. To heap up in confusion. [ Prov. Eng.] Forby.

Sozzle Soz"zle noun 1. One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman. [ Local, U.S.]

2. A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spa Spa noun A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.

Spaad Spaad noun [ Confer German spath spar. See Spar the mineral.] (Min.) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus. [ Obsolete] oodward.

Space Space (spās) noun [ Middle English space , French espace , from Latin spatium space; confer Greek spa^n to draw, to tear; perhaps akin to English span . Confer Expatiate .] 1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.

Locke.

2. Place, having more or less extension; room.

They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare;
Long had he no space to dwell [ in].

R. of Brunne.

While I have time and space .

Chaucer.

3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

Put a space betwixt drove and drove.

Gen. xxxii. 16.

4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space ." R. of brunne.

Nine times the space that measures day and night.

Milton.

God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.

Tillotson.

5. A short time; a while. [ R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space ." Spenser.

6. Walk; track; path; course. [ Obsolete]

This ilke [ same] monk let old things pace,
And held after the new world the space .

Chaucer.

7. (print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.

» Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.

8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

Absolute space , Euclidian space , etc. See under Absolute , Euclidian , etc. -- Space line (Print.) , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. Hansard. -- Space rule (Print.) , a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.

Space Space intransitive verb [ Confer Old French espacier , Latin spatiari . See Space , noun ] To walk; to rove; to roam. [ Obsolete]

And loved in forests wild to space .

Spenser.

Space Space transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spaced ; present participle & verbal noun Spacong .] [ Confer French espacer . See Space , noun ] (Print.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

Space bar, key Space bar, key (Machinery) A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

Spaceful Space"ful adjective Wide; extensive. Sandys.

Spaceless Space"less adjective Without space. Coleridge.

Spacial Spa"cial adjective See Spatial .

Spacially Spa"cial·ly adverb See Spatially . Sir W. Hamilton.

Spacious Spa"cious adjective [ Latin spatiousus : confer French spacieux . See Space , noun ] 1. Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide." Milton.

2. Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall. -- Spa"cious*ly , adverb -- Spa"cious*ness , noun

Spad Spad noun (Mining) A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.

Spadassin Spa`das`sin" noun [ French, from Italian spadaccino a swordsman, from spada a sword.] A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.

Spaddle Spad"dle noun A little spade. [ Obsolete]

Spade Spade noun [ Confer Spay , noun ] 1. (Zoology) A hart or stag three years old. [ Written also spaid , spayade .]

2. [ Confer Latin spado .] A castrated man or beast.

Spade Spade noun [ Anglo-Saxon spæd ; spada ; akin to Dutch spade , German spaten , Icelandic spaði , Dan. & Swedish spade , Latin spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Greek spa`qh . Confer Epaulet , Spade at cards, Spathe , Spatula .] 1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

2. [ Spanish espada , literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Spanish espada is from Latin spatha , Greek spa`qh . See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

"Let spades be trumps!" she said.

Pope.

3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spade bayonet , a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet . -- Spade handle (Machinery) , the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint , under Knuckle .

Spade Spade transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spaded ; present participle & verbal noun Spading .] To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Spadebone Spade"bone` noun Shoulder blade. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spadefish Spade"fish` noun (Zoology) An American market fish ( Chætodipterus faber ) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish , moonfish , and porgy .

Spadefoot Spade"foot` noun (Zoology) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus , esp. S. Holbrookii , of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad .

Spadeful Spade"ful noun ; plural Spadefuls . [ Spade + full .] As much as a spade will hold or lift.

Spader Spad"er noun One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

Spadiceous Spa·di"ceous adjective [ Latin spadix , -icis , a date-brown or nut-brown color. See Spadix .] 1. Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color. Sir T. Browne.

2. (Botany) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

Spadicose Spa"di·cose` adjective (Botany) Spadiceous.

Spadille Spa·dille" noun [ French, from Spanish espadilla , dim. of espada . See Spade a card.] (Card Playing) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

Spadix Spa"dix noun ; plural Latin Spadices , English Spadixes . [ Latin , a palm branch broken off, with its fruit, Greek ....] 1. (Botany) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe .

2. (Zoology) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

Spado Spa"do noun ; plural Spadones . [ Latin , from Greek ....] 1. Same as Spade , 2.

2. (Law) An impotent person.

Spadroon Spa·droon" noun [ Confer F. & Spanish espadon , Italian spadone . See Espadon , Spade .] A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

Spae Spae intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spaed ; present participle & verbal noun Spaeing .] [ Scot. spae , spay , to foretell, to divine, Icelandic spā .] To foretell; to divine. [ Scot.]

Spaeman Spae"man noun A prophet; a diviner. [ Scot.]

Spaewife Spae"wife` noun A female fortune teller. [ Scot.]

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